Samar ElFeky

Dr. Samar ElFeky
Regional Officer for Community-Based Initiatives and Health of Older People
WHO/EMRO

Dr. Samar ElFeky is currently the Regional focal point for Community-based Initiatives and Health of Older Population. Dr. Samar is a Medical Doctor qualified in Public Health from Liverpool University, Reproductive, Maternal and Child Health from Cairo University and Health System Research from Johns Hopkins University, USA.

Dr ElFeky has working experience in WHO/EMRO in promoting health for older people, integrating WHO Integrated Care for Older People (ICOPE), and Decade for Healthy Aging. Moreover, participating actively in promoting and implementation of healthy settings (healthy cities, Age-friendly cities, healthy schools, healthy workplaces, healthy villages and healthy markets), research, Primary and Community Health Care. Dr ElFeky participated in introducing, monitoring and evaluation of Healthy Cities Programme in countries of the Region including Bahrain, Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and UAE. In addition, Dr ElFeky participated in implementing Urban Health Equity Assessment and Response Tool (Urban HEART) in Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Sudan and Tunisia. Dr ElFeky participated also in many capacity building activities related to bioethics, research methodology, and implementation research. Dr ElFeky has many publications in the field of home health care for elderly, research, Healthy Cities, planning effective communication strategies, community health workers, community-based disaster risk reduction, WHO collaborating centres, Bioethics, and mapping health research institutions and bibliometric analysis of countries of eastern Mediterranean Region.

Publications

1. Healthy Cities Programme in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: concurrent progress and future prospects, Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, EMHJ , 25 (7), 2019, available from http://applications.emro.who.int/emhj/v25/07/EMHJ_2019_25_07_445_446.pdf?ua=1
2. The application of Urban Health Equity Assessment and Response Tool to assess health inequity among dwellers of an urban slum area in Giza governorate, Egypt, the Egy J of Public Health
3. Ethics in health practice and research: an EMR perspective, Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, EMHJ , 22 ( 1), 2016 , available from http://www.emro.who.int/emhj-volume-22-2016/volume-22-issue-1/ethics-in-health-practice-and-research-an-emr-perspective.html
4. WHO collaboration centers
5. Training modules on improving communication strategies to improve national nutrition programmes- WHO/EMRO (facilitators and participants guides) , available from http://applications.emro.who.int/dsaf/dsa788.pdfhttp://applications.emro.who.int/dsaf/dsa789.pdf
6. Managing disaster risks in communities, a community-based approach to disaster risk reduction- Training manual for the trainers of cluster representatives and volunteers. WHO/EMRO/ PHC. Available from http://applications.emro.who.int/dsaf/EMROPUB_2015_EN_1881.pdf?ua=1
7. Training manual on interpersonal communication and counseling in birth spacing- Ministry of Health- Sultanate of Oman.
8. Concept paper on “The growing need for home health care for the elderly”. WHO, EMRO. Available from http://applications.emro.who.int/dsaf/EMROPUB_2015_EN_1901.pdf?ua=1
9. Community Health Workers: A Strategy to Ensure Access to Primary Health Care Services. WHO, EMRO. Available from http://applications.emro.who.int/dsaf/EMROPUB_2016_EN_1760.pdf
10. Prioritizing action on health inequities in cities: An evaluation of Urban Health Equity Assessment and Response Tool (Urban HEART) in 15 cities from Asia and Africa, Journal Social Science and Medicine. Available from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26456133http://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0277953615301337
11. WHO events addressing public health priorities, Fostering national bioethics committees: first regional summit in the Eastern Mediterranean Region/Arab States Region, EMHJ, Vol. 23 No. 6, 2017. Available from http://applications.emro.who.int/emhj/v23/06/EMHJ_2017_23_06_453_455.pdf?ua=1&ua=1

Participated in finalization of the following documents of WHO/EMRO:

1. Quarterly published Community Based Initiatives Newsletters
2. Effects of Urbanization on noncommunicable diseases: studies from 3 countries (Egypt, Iran and Pakistan), WHO/EMRO/ PHC. Available from http://applications.emro.who.int/dsaf/EMPUB_2012_864.pdf
3. RPD newsletters
4. Good practices in delivery of primary health care in urban settings. WHO/EMRO/ PHC. Available from http://applications.emro.who.int/dsaf/EMPUB_2012_865.pdf

• Research studies on assessing health equity using WHO Urban Health Equity Assessment and Response Tool (Urban HEART) in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia. Available from http://applications.emro.who.int/hcn/